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#ifndef __auth_h__
#define __auth_h__ 1

/**
 * Attempts to acquire the system.privilege.taskport right for the current process. This
 * right is required for using the task_for_pid() system call.
 *
 * TODO: While the acquisition of this right appears to succeed (according to /var/log/secure.log),
 * the call to task_for_pid() still fails. Until we can ascertain what extra steps are need to
 * authorize the Inspector process for use of this system call, the Inspector must be run as root.
 *
 * @see /etc/authorization
 * @see man taskgated
 */
extern int acquireTaskportRight();

#endif /* __auth_h__ */
